Conferences / FOSS4G North America
FOSS4G North America 2026
Nov 2–4, 2026 · Sheraton Grand Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States
- Conference
- FOSS4G North America Software engineering
- Dates
- Nov 2, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026
- Venue
- Sheraton Grand Sacramento
- Place
- Sacramento, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- foss4gna.org
- Recorded
- 19 sponsors · 147 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Themes: Resilience and Innovation (open data, water policy, wildfire). Workshops + B2B session Mon 2 Nov, plenaries/talks 3-4 Nov. Site advertises 12 workshops, 100+ talks, 3 plenary sessions. 'B2B' tier = B2B session naming sponsor. Talks on pretalx talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-na-2026. Speakers: every scheduled session from the pretalx schedule export (talks, workshops, academic track where published separately), one row per speaker per session; affiliations taken from each speaker's pretalx bio where it states an employer/university, else null.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single Day - Early Bird | $275 | Sep 17, 2026 | foss4gna.org | |
| Full Conference General - Early Bird | $560 | Sep 17, 2026 | foss4gna.org | |
| Single Day - Regular | $325 | Nov 1, 2026 | foss4gna.org | |
| Full Conference General - Regular | $640 | Nov 1, 2026 | foss4gna.org | |
| B2B ticket add-on | $80 | — | also available standalone | foss4gna.org |
| Workshop add-on | $100 | — | also available standalone | foss4gna.org |
| Full Conference Student | $320 | — | foss4gna.org | |
| Single Day - Onsite | $375 | — | foss4gna.org | |
| Full Conference Government Employee | $540 | — | Local, State, Tribal, Federal, public colleges/universities | foss4gna.org |
| Full Conference General - Onsite | $740 | — | foss4gna.org | |
| Academic sponsorship | $1,500 | — | 8 available | foss4gna.org |
| Support & Attend sponsorship | $1,500 | — | foss4gna.org | |
| Bronze sponsorship | $4,000 | — | foss4gna.org | |
| Silver sponsorship | $7,500 | — | foss4gna.org | |
| B2B Session sponsorship | $7,500 | — | 1 available | foss4gna.org |
| Gold sponsorship | $12,500 | — | foss4gna.org | |
| Platinum sponsorship | $17,500 | — | foss4gna.org | |
| Diamond sponsorship | $25,000 | — | foss4gna.org |
Sponsors 19
Bronze 3
Community 10
- BayGeo · Supporter
- Bright Rain Solutions · Supporter
- Cercana Systems · Supporter
- Dewberry · Supporter
- Element 84 · Supporter
- GeoRobotix · Supporter
- Overture Maps Foundation · Supporter
- TerraFrame · Supporter
- Voyager Search · Supporter
- Wet Dog Weather · Supporter
Other 1
- TerraByte AI · B2B
Speakers and talks 147
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Cabrera | King County GIS Center | Speaker | GeoProof and ProofSimple: A Trust Layer for GIS AI Answers | — |
| AJ Friend | Waymo | Speaker | How Squished Are Your DGGS Cells? A Spherical Aspect Ratio | — |
| AJ Friend | Waymo | Speaker | DGGS Set Design: Compaction-Aware Optimization | — |
| AJ Friend | Waymo | Speaker | Hierarchical (Co-)Compaction for DGGS Cells | — |
| Alex Mandel | Development Seed | Speaker | Access all the data at once, Virtual Zarr and GeoZarr | — |
| Alex Mandel | Development Seed | Speaker | Benchmarking Cloud-Optimized Point Clouds (COPC) for Scientific LiDAR Workflows | — |
| Amritha Pallavoor | — | Speaker | Detecting, mapping, and taxonomically classifying trees using RGB drone imagery | — |
| Andrea Aime | — | Speaker | Precision farming with GeoServer: lessons learned and future directions | — |
| Andrea Aime | — | Speaker | AI-dministering GeoServer and MapStore | — |
| Andrea Aime | — | Speaker | State of Geoserver | — |
| Andrea Aime | — | Speaker | GeoServer VS GeoServer: fight! | — |
| Andreas Royset | — | Speaker | Natural-Language Routing on an Open Stack | — |
| Andres Abeyta | Bootcamp GIS | Speaker | Geospatial Workforce trends: The demand for open source | — |
| Ari Tilles | California State University, Northridge | Speaker | Open-Source R Workflows for Modern Geospatial and Accessibility Analysis | — |
| Atma Mani | Station A | Speaker | Building a Geospatial Feature Store: Lessons from Elastic, PostGIS, Kubernetes | — |
| avkoehl | — | Speaker | Where to Cut? Partitioning Branching Shapes in River Floodplains | — |
| Behrooz Etebari | — | Speaker | Modeling SGMA Undesirable Result #6 Using Open-Source CVHM2 Workflows | — |
| Bernardo Salazar | UrbanDataLabs | Speaker | Wildfire Needs a Hazmat Overlay | — |
| Bernardo Salazar | UrbanDataLabs | Speaker | Sparse Data, Stronger Maps | — |
| Bernardo Salazar | UrbanDataLabs | Speaker | Civic GeoShell for Emergency Map Sprawl | — |
| Brian Andres | Element 84 | Speaker | Creating LLM Captions and Embeddings for Natural-Language Geospatial Search | — |
| Brian M Hamlin | — | Speaker | TorchGeo: ML Workflows for Open Geospatial Data | — |
| Brianna (Pagán) Corremonte | — | Speaker | Collections, collections, everywhere, but not the collection you need | — |
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Speaker | Building an MCP Server Using Postgres | — |
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Speaker | Will Postgres Live Forever? | — |
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Speaker | Can AI Write SQL? | — |
| Bruce Momjian | EDB | Speaker | Building Open Source Teams | — |
| Cam Denney | — | Speaker | Building a Regional Geospatial Community: Lessons from BayGeo | — |
| Carston H | Honeycomb Maps | Speaker | Look, no backend! The return of client-side spatial processing | — |
| Chris Toney | USDA Forest Service | Speaker | gdalraster: Comprehensive GDAL API bindings for R | — |
| Colin Hobson | — | Speaker | Deploying Enterprise GIS With Open Source Technologies and OGC Standards | — |
| Corey White | North Carolina State University | Speaker | State of GRASS | — |
| Corey White | North Carolina State University | Workshop | Geohazard Change Detection for Emergency Management with GRASS | — |
| Cristiano Giovando | — | Speaker | Getting Crisis Imagery to Responders: Rebuilding OpenAerialMap | — |
| Cynthia Williams | — | Speaker | Spatial Memory Systems for GNSS-Degraded Navigation | — |
| Dan Joseph | American Red Cross | Speaker | Empowering people to map the urban heat island effect | — |
| Daniel Tan | — | Speaker | Adding Open Source Tools to a Proprietary Ecosystem | — |
| Daniel Tan | — | Speaker | ISTL: cloud native indexed STL files | — |
| Dara O’beirne | City of Sacramento | Speaker | Geospatial AI Agents in Practice: Sacramento Open Data and Hermes | — |
| Dariya Draganova | GreenInfo Network | Speaker | An Iterative Process: Creating California's Important Plant Areas | — |
| David Russell | UC Davis | Speaker | Geograypher: Enabling Geospatial Predictions from Individual Drone Images | — |
| David Russell | UC Davis | Workshop | Detecting, mapping, and taxonomically classifying trees using RGB drone imagery | — |
| Dennis Wuthrich | Farallon Geographics | Speaker | Relationships Are the Data: Semantic Graphs for Geospatial Resources | — |
| Derek Young | — | Speaker | Detecting, mapping, and taxonomically classifying trees using RGB drone imagery | — |
| Derek Young | — | Workshop | Detecting, mapping, and taxonomically classifying trees using RGB drone imagery | — |
| Dewey Dunnington | Wherobots | Workshop | Wrangling uncomfortably large spatial data with Python and SedonaDB | — |
| Dewey Dunnington | Wherobots | Speaker | SedonaDB: A fast, friction-free spatial database for Python + R | — |
| Doc Ritezel | Ministry of Velocity | Speaker | Open Transit Data from Cal-ITP | — |
| EmmaLi Tsai | Epic | Speaker | OpenWetlandsMap - an accessible, community-maintained dataset of wetland observations | — |
| Eric Larson | — | Speaker | From Geoportal to Platform: Introducing the BTAA Geospatial API | — |
| Erin Mutch | UC Merced | Speaker | Cliopatria - A geopolitical database from 3400BCE to 2024CE | — |
| Evan Siroky | — | Speaker | Open Timezone Boundary Data - 10 Years In | — |
| Evan Siroky | Caltrans | Speaker | Open Transit Data from Cal-ITP | — |
| Fernando Pérez | UC Berkeley | Speaker | GeoJupyter: the Jupyter ecosystem and open tools for geospatial science | — |
| Forrest Pound | Motivf | Speaker | Precise but Partial: Honest Mobility Modeling for Public Decisions | — |
| Fuxun Yu | — | Speaker | Wildfire Intelligence with Open Geospatial AI | — |
| Gabby Getz | Bentley | Speaker | Vector Data Support in 3D Tiles & CesiumJS | — |
| George Owen | Esri | Speaker | Performant maps, open data: Optimizing large municipal queries with MapLibre | — |
| George Owen | Esri | Speaker | Maps that do the talking: Data-driven visualization with MapLibre | — |
| Gordon Luckett | — | Speaker | Connecting Everything to MapGuide Open Source | — |
| GUILLAUME SUEUR | Geomermaids | Workshop | Make FEMA Flood Maps Cloud-Native: A GeoParquet + DuckDB Pipeline | — |
| GUILLAUME SUEUR | Geomermaids | Speaker | DuckDB and Spatial Datasets: A Geo-Practitioner's Feedback | — |
| Harshini Girish | — | Speaker | Benchmarking Cloud-Optimized Point Clouds (COPC) for Scientific LiDAR Workflows | — |
| Heather Savoy | — | Speaker | The GeoCDL: streamlining geospatial workflows on high-performance computing infrastructure | — |
| Henry Rodman | Development Seed | Speaker | lazycogs: super lazy analysis of massive COG archives | — |
| Henry Rodman | Development Seed | Speaker | Collections, collections, everywhere, but not the collection you need | — |
| Howard Butler | Hobu, Inc | Speaker | Code is liability – contributing to GDAL in the LLM era | — |
| Ian Horn | — | Speaker | KyFromAbove: Building on Open Data Success | — |
| Jada O'Donnell | CivilGrid | Speaker | AI, Open Source, and the Future of Entry-Level GIS | — |
| James McAndrew | — | Speaker | Point Clouds from Your Pocket: 3D Capture with a Phone | — |
| Jarrett Keifer | Element 84 | Speaker | Do formats exist? Towards a unified foundation for data tooling | — |
| Jarrett Keifer | Element 84 | Workshop | Exploring Cloud Native Geospatial Data Formats: Hands-on with Vectors | — |
| Jeroen Ticheler | — | Speaker | Open Source Geospatial Foundation updates | — |
| Jesse Amundsen | — | Speaker | Vector Tiles using DuckDB, GeoParquet & Azure Storage+Functions | — |
| Jia Yu | Wherobots | Speaker | SedonaDB: A fast, friction-free spatial database for Python + R | — |
| Jing Yuan | — | Speaker | Operational Geospatial Workflows for Decision Support | — |
| JJ Paul | SRF Consulting | Workshop | Open Methods for Disaggregating Commodity Flows | — |
| John Gunnar Carlsson | — | Speaker | Natural-Language Routing on an Open Stack | — |
| Karen Majewicz | — | Speaker | The Archiving and Preservation of Public Geospatial Data | — |
| Kate Vavra-Musser | — | Speaker | Georeferencing Natural History Collections at Scale: A Hybrid AI Approach | — |
| Kim Durante | — | Speaker | The Archiving and Preservation of Public Geospatial Data | — |
| Kirk Davis | Timmons Group | Speaker | Leveraging STAC to support CONUS-scale wildfire modeling | — |
| Kirk Davis | Timmons Group | Speaker | Supporting multiple SRIDs with PostGIS and Django's GeneratedField | — |
| Lindsey Sim | — | Speaker | A dashboard for monitoring HAB events in the SF Bay | — |
| Luke McKinstry | — | Speaker | Vector Data Support in 3D Tiles & CesiumJS | — |
| Maryam Hosseini | UC Berkeley | Speaker | GeoJupyter: the Jupyter ecosystem and open tools for geospatial science | — |
| Maryam Hosseini | UC Berkeley | Speaker | Cities, unmapped: Scaling Pedestrian Infrastructure Mapping with Tile2Net | — |
| Matt Brush | Chico State Enterprises | Speaker | Wrangling spatial data, modeling biogeochemistry, and scaling serverless cloud infrastructure | — |
| Matt Fisher | — | Speaker | GeoJupyter: the Jupyter ecosystem and open tools for geospatial science | — |
| Matthew Hanson | LGND | Speaker | Visualizing Aggregations in STAC: From Scenes to Coverage | — |
| Matthew Hanson | LGND | Speaker | Geo Embeddings 101: Models, image chips, and semantic search | — |
| Matthew Hanson | LGND | Speaker | Into the STACLands: A Choose Your Own Adventure | — |
| Matthew VanderMolen | — | Speaker | Wrangling Public Geospatial Data into a Shared Model | — |
| Max Grossman | — | Speaker | swell-tag: a surfer’s spatial database | — |
| Michael Sumner | — | Speaker | gdalraster: Comprehensive GDAL API bindings for R | — |
| Michele Tobias | UC Davis | Speaker | We Scanned These Maps. Now What? | — |
| Michele Tobias | UC Davis | Workshop | QGIS Map Design Fundamentals | — |
| Minh Nguyễn | — | Speaker | Meet the people who put San José on the map | — |
| Minh Nguyễn | — | Speaker | OpenHistoricalMap: across the geoverse | — |
| Minh Nguyễn | — | Speaker | The OpenStreetMap platform today | — |
| Mohammed Bilal Ahmed | — | Speaker | Validating and Prioritizing Crowdsourced Disaster Reports with Open Geospatial Methods | — |
| Naomi Provost | — | Speaker | Moving from Science to Product | — |
| Nathan McEachen | TerraFrame | Speaker | Introducing Geospatial Awareness to LLMs with Integrity, Provenance, and Trust | — |
| Nathan McEachen | TerraFrame | Workshop | Building Geospatially Aware LLM Agents with Graphs and DGGS | — |
| Nicholas Ingalls | — | Speaker | Colorado's Open-Source Common Operating Picture | — |
| Nico Tripcevich | UC Berkeley | Speaker | Scientific data gathering with QField | — |
| Nidhi Jha | University of Alabama in Huntsville | Speaker | Building Trustworthy Open Geospatial AI Agents:Collaborative Co-Design Approach | — |
| Nora Anwar | Overture Maps Foundation | Speaker | Overture: A Collaboration Model for Innovation on Shared Infrastructure | — |
| Oleg Pariser | — | Speaker | Developing a GDAL Driver for Cloud-Optimized NISAR HDF5 | — |
| Pat Smyth | — | Speaker | Giving LLMs a Sense of Place: a Spatial MCP Server | — |
| Pat Smyth | — | Speaker | Verify, then Trust: Evaluating Geo-AI | — |
| Paul Walko | — | Speaker | Open Source Low-Power Environment Monitoring with Meshtastic | — |
| Pratyush Kumar Das | Asian Institute of Technology | Speaker | SEA-LWE: A Regional Dataset for Lake Surface Water Extent | — |
| Pratyush Kumar Das | Asian Institute of Technology | Workshop | Mastering Reproducible Geospatial Environments with Nix | — |
| Rajat Shinde | UAH | Speaker | Benchmarking Cloud-Optimized Point Clouds (COPC) for Scientific LiDAR Workflows | — |
| Randal Hale | North River Geographic Systems | Workshop | Hitchikers guide to QGIS | — |
| Randal Hale | North River Geographic Systems | Speaker | Small County use of PostGIS and QGIS for 911 databases | — |
| Randal Hale | North River Geographic Systems | Speaker | QGIS Birds of a Feather | — |
| Rishi Madhok | — | Speaker | Wildfire Intelligence with Open Geospatial AI | — |
| Rodolfo Figueroa Soriano | — | Speaker | Contract-Driven Geospatial Indicators at Any Scale | — |
| rosswin | — | Speaker | Ask the Map: Natural-Language Q&A for Disaster Response | — |
| Ryan Gillespie | — | Speaker | Terrain analysis of large datasets: applications from the National Map | — |
| Sanjog Thapa | — | Speaker | GeoUI: An Open Intent Protocol for Agent-Driven Geospatial Visualization | — |
| Seth Lawler | Dewberry | Speaker | Building SWIFFT: Open Geospatial Flood Intelligence for Transportation Decision Support | — |
| Shaishav Mahendrakumar Maisuria | — | Workshop | Routes to Safety: A Wildfire Evacuation Map from Open Data | — |
| Shaishav Mahendrakumar Maisuria | — | Speaker | Accelerated Multi-Source Vector-Tile Generation with Open-source Frameworks | — |
| Silas Toms | PG&E | Speaker | Geospatial AI Agents in Practice: Sacramento Open Data and Hermes | — |
| Simone Giannecchini | GeoSolutions | Speaker | AI-dministering GeoServer and MapStore | — |
| Simone Giannecchini | GeoSolutions | Speaker | State of Geoserver | — |
| Simone Giannecchini | GeoSolutions | Speaker | GeoServer VS GeoServer: fight! | — |
| Simone Giannecchini | GeoSolutions | Speaker | Precision farming with GeoServer: lessons learned and future directions | — |
| Takeo Shibata | — | Speaker | Monitoring Drought Impacts on California Rice with Python | — |
| Takeo Shibata | — | Speaker | Predicting Rice Supply with GIS and Satellite Indicators | — |
| Takeo Shibata | — | Speaker | Building a Python Workflow for California Rice Monitoring | — |
| Tim Bailey | Salmon Creek Systems | Speaker | Open source utilization of 3DHP for fire adapted watershed management. | — |
| Timothy Steward | Fujitsu | Speaker | From Shapefiles to Spatial Databases: PostgreSQL Basics | — |
| Timothy Steward | Fujitsu | Speaker | Leveraging Open-Source to Build Cost-Effective Supply Chain Systems | — |
| Tom Kralidis | Meteorological Service of Canada | Speaker | pygeoapi project status | — |
| Tom Kralidis | Meteorological Service of Canada | Speaker | Open Source Geospatial Foundation updates | — |
| Tyler Erickson | Radiant Earth | Speaker | Source Cooperative: Cloud-Native Geospatial Data Publishing at any Scale | — |
| Ushashi Podder | New York City Department of City Planning | Speaker | Who Gets Left Behind? A Reproducible Pipeline for Health Equity | — |
| Vishal Kumar | Amazon Web Services | Workshop | Routes to Safety: A Wildfire Evacuation Map from Open Data | — |
| Vishal Kumar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Accelerated Multi-Source Vector-Tile Generation with Open-source Frameworks | — |
| Vitor Vieira | Lutra Consulting | Speaker | Mergin Maps: an open source platform for field data collection | — |
| Vitor Vieira | Lutra Consulting | Workshop | From QGIS to the Field and Back with Mergin Maps | — |
| W. Nick Pappin | — | Speaker | Hacking the BDC (Broadband Data Collection) for fun and profit! | — |
| Yifan Mai | — | Speaker | STAC Search: A Search Engine for Geospatial Datasets | — |